What happened to JonBenét Ramsey’s house after her murder?

Early on the morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report that her daughter, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, had been abducted from her home in Boulder, Colorado.

Patsy claimed to have found a handwritten ransom note on the house’s stationery. Hours later, JonBenét’s father, John Bennett Ramsey, found her body in the basement. The beauty queen had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled.

Patsy and John were considered suspects early in the investigation, but were never charged. Patsy died of ovarian cancer in 2006 and two years later she and John and their son Burke Ramsey were publicly exonerated in JonBenét’s death.

As of November 2024, the murder being investigated in the new Netflix documentaries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? remains unsolved – but what happened to the Ramsey family home that was at the center of the nearly three-decade-old case?

Here’s everything you need to know about JonBenét Ramsey’s house and what happened to it after her murder.

Where did JonBenét Ramsey live?

JonBenét was about a year old when her parents bought their home in Boulder, Colorado, for $500,000 each in November 1991 The Denver Post. She lived in the home her whole life.

After JonBenét’s body was found in the basement on December 26, 1996, the newspaper appeared reported that the Ramsey family never stayed at the house again.

In 1997, a year after JonBenét’s murder, the home was estimated to be worth about $1 million, and a local woman who knew the family described its features to PEOPLE.

At the time of the murder, the Ramsey home had amenities such as a separate catering kitchen, “expensive European antiques” and a pull-out screen in the master bedroom.

Where is JonBenét Ramsey’s house?

JonBenét’s house was in Boulder, Colorado, within walking distance of the University of Colorado Boulder campus in the University Hill neighborhood New York Post.

The 7,571-square-foot red brick home has three stories, a Tudor-style roof and a finished basement on a quarter-acre lot.

The property includes a formal dining room, a kitchen, five bedrooms (with an expansive 1,141-square-foot penthouse suite on the third floor), a game room, a living room, a sunroom, a terrace and five and a half bathrooms.

What happened to JonBenét’s house after her murder?

After JonBenét was murdered, her parents never slept in the house again. According to the information, they sold the property to investors in February 1998 for $650,000 The Denver Post.

The investors agreed to resell the house and donate the profits to the JonBenét Ramsey Children’s Foundation, which their parents founded in 1997 to help “children with diverse needs,” according to a 1999 report Daily Camera Story.

From 1999 to 2001, EJ “Doc” Kreiss, then a strength and conditioning coach at the University of Colorado, rented the house. In June 2001, the property’s street address was changed slightly and a large fence, gate and tall trees were added to give the house more privacy The Denver Post.

Tim Milner and Carol Schuller Milner, daughter of televangelist Robert H. Schuller, bought the home in May 2004 for $1.05 million.

Carol explained the purchase Westword in 2019 and said she was initially a little concerned about the home’s history. “I thought, ‘I don’t know,’ but I’ve never been one to shy away from something just because it’s challenging or weird,” she said. “As we walked through the house, I could tell it was really well built – a well-built 1920s house.”

In July 2008, the Milners listed the property for $2.68 million but took it off the market without selling. They re-listed the home in May 2009, lowered the price to $2.29 million, and re-listed it for $2.3 million in February 2011, but the home still didn’t sell. In 2014, the price was reduced even more significantly when the house was listed for $1.98 million, but the Milners still didn’t sell the house.

Carol said one of the reasons they didn’t sell the house was because they didn’t want to let go of the property, not because they couldn’t find interested buyers.

“The house isn’t empty,” Carol said Westword. “We actually had offers for it – decent offers. But we didn’t accept any of it, more out of our attachment to the house. It’s our home and we really, really love it.”

The Milners then renovated the home and put it on the market for $7.25 million in November 2022, Realtor.com reported. In March 2023, the Milners reduced the price to $6.95 million and further reduced it to $6.24 million seven months later. As of March 2024, the home was taken off the market again with no buyer New York Post.

How much is JonBenét Ramsey’s house worth today?

The Ramsey home was last listed for $6.24 million in 2023, but its actual value may not reflect that, according to an expert.

“The market views anything that has to do with children who have been injured, abused or murdered as the most abhorrent condition. It has a dramatic impact on property values,” Orell Anderson, a forensic real estate appraiser who inspected the property after the murder, told Real Estate Agents.com.

He added that properties with dark pasts, particularly those involving children, typically sell at a 10 to 25 percent discount, sometimes even cheaper if the crimes were particularly disturbing. Anderson also noted that the property could potentially attract unwanted attention from tourists who sometimes visit “murder houses” while on vacation.